Why did so many people like Fable 2?

i dont se anyone say anything bad about this game. i didnt play the first one so i decided to get this one. it looked like a blast because i love RPG's and the family thing seemed neat. what the heck? this is the game X-Play deemed worthy of best game of the year? the game was short and predicatble, the combat has to be the worst combat ive played in a while. if i want a wife i talk to her doing the same gesture for 5 mins than have a baby and theres all the options i can do with my family custimaztion. and Lionhead thinks that hitting a little dot in the green for 30 minutes is a fun way to make money. what am i missing? the only thing i seemed to enjoy was inviting my friend into my world and kill everybody in albion, this shouldnt even be listed as a RPG. oh boy i leveled up. usually you would like to be rewarded with something unique but no you get some more things u can do with the X button. and the magic and ranged seemed pointless since there exactly the same thing. i really wanted to like this game but i was wrong. looks like im going to have to skip on this one

i also didnt see the big deal. definitely not a great game. mediocre. sammyt555

[QUOTE="sammyt555"]i also didnt see the big deal. definitely not a great game. mediocre. MikeLirette

[QUOTE="MikeLirette"][QUOTE="sammyt555"]i also didnt see the big deal. definitely not a great game. mediocre. johnmatthais

mike, i just dont find much incentive to play the game. nothing urges me to go turn on my xbox and play fable 2. If i make more money in that game, i can buy more useless crap or decorate my house. My character uses pretty much nothing but Will, so i dont need any gear. all my powers are full so i dont need to level up. i can kill anything in the game no problem.

why should i play? the combat is not fun or intricate. the main quest line is so unimaginitive it makes me want to cry. the sidequests are never anything very interesting. i just never find myself saying "wow" in that game. tell me what you think mike

I'm an RPG guy and I love Fable 2. I come from a long background of gaming on PC, and just lately finished The Witcher: EE for a 3rd time. I think real gamers can accept Fable 2 as a great experience, even if it's not as deep as some others.BioShockOwnz

Yeah, its badly overrated.

I liked Fable, so i bought Fable 2 on its release day. The story was stupid, even for fable. There is little armor or different weapon types. The combat is extremly dumbed down. I didnt die "get knocked out" a single time. I am a pretty good gamer, but i should never get through an entire game without dying at least once. It almost felt like it should be a Wii game. The ending was awful. The graphics were not bad but were not very crisp. ALOT of bugs.

If i went into Fable without a lot of hype i may have enjoyed it more but if i had to do it again i would definetly rent it and beat it but i would not spend $60 for it.

mike, i just dont find much incentive to play the game. nothing urges me to go turn on my xbox and play fable 2. If i make more money in that game, i can buy more useless crap or decorate my house. My character uses pretty much nothing but Will, so i dont need any gear. all my powers are full so i dont need to level up. i can kill anything in the game no problem.

why should i play? the combat is not fun or intricate. the main quest line is so unimaginitive it makes me want to cry. the sidequests are never anything very interesting. i just never find myself saying "wow" in that game. tell me what you think mike

sammyt555

Accually I hate RPG games but I liked the game.. It was fun but short (the main quest, I don't really care for side quests and family stuff)...

My only complaint is the co-op.

other from that i enjoy the game

cant wait for the DLC

I never played the first one either but I love Fable 2! Its my type of game. Thats why "I" like it.nelfer320

i hated it it completely screwed over my hopes for the series but i mean i also didn't like Fable 1, so to speak because Fable one was incredibly linear and restricted, and just didn't do well as an RPG, and it took 10-12 hours to finish (about the time it took me to finish Conker or any of the Banjo games) Fable 2 made it worse for me...it promised a bigger world...it gave it to me, but it actually reduced play-time...it only took me 8 hours to finish it was even easier than Fable 1, in a sense that a lot of combat was button-mashing, like a fighting game tacked on to an already lacking RPG. it did improve on the directions you could take, there were now clear good and evil directions, both of which were INCREDIBLY obvious, but i failed to see how it affected anything in the very end, seeing as i didn't play through twice. Multiplayer was promised...but it was limited and felt like you were trying to play multiplayer Diablo on one computer...not to mention the henchman thing sucked, as in you couldn't show off your cool gear to other people unless you switched who was hosting...and even then, comparison was hard...not to mention, i didn't ask for multiplayer...i would have been fine without it the side-quests, oh they were a joke. there were very few, they were easy, didn't have much a point and often didn't give you much that you didn't already have better than. a lot of the amazing stuff could be found anyways or through a promotion or summat. lastly, the real-estate. it was a good idea, but i found it a pain to have to manage each one separately, and by the time i got around to each, i found myself forgetting what i was going to put there i mean i'm an RPG guy but this is ridiculous...if you're a casual RPG player or a guy who usually plays shooters or summat, then this is for you, and there are prolly a lot of hardcore RPG players out there but it wasn't my cup of tea a lot of people love Fable, i didn't (and for the record, i'm not hating on MS, i played the hell out of Halo and Gears) and also, OP asked for someone to say something bad...so i did ^_^johnmatthais

I like it because I loved the first one. Fable is what got me into RPG's with choices (not like Zelda, Devil May Cry etc). The second one to me, although the story lacks depth, the creative freedom and character possibilities are what I really like. The only faults that annoy me are faults the first Fable had: too short a story line, no way of dying, combat too easy and not enough variation between non-legendary weapons (the legendary weapons I think are a brilliant idea). The fact there there is so much to do outside of the main story is also what I love- a lot of games have linear story lines that once you complete, there's nothing to do. At least with this game its not essential that you stick to the main storyline. To complete everything requires at least 60 hours of gameplay.

If you don't like Fable fair enough, it has a very unique style of gameplay that not everybody can adjust to.

I remember going into the game wanting to do nothing more then my favorite thing. Treasure Hunting. When I play MMO, when I play free roam RPG, I Treasure hunt and scavenge endlessly trying to both look nice and have a collection I can boast about to freinds.

Wanna know were the helmet of not getting ownedis? I know.

Want the Bow of extremely pointless gore sequences? I can tell yah.

How bout that Ogre slaying dagger? The +9 against Ogres one. I can get you that in a blink.

That how I like to play things like that. It's fun to know were everything is. Fable 2 both did and did not deliver a fullfulling experience to me all at once. Treasure worth having was few and far in between and sadly once again the game left itself in a situation were a specific weapon type made ALL other weapons absolutely pointless. Even the Diachi, the one non-DLC weapon worth having, was a damn Katana. They couldn't be bothered to make an ultimate weapon of every type.

Clothing was poor to me. Not that there wasn't some good looking stuff, but there just wasn't enough types. You have a poor, a mid-class and a Rich suit. IF you buy the rich suit you are set for the rest of the game. This is crap. They should have made MORE clothes with bad/medium/good stats to give the players some diversity. They expected their bright, eyesore dyes to solve that. I never use anything but blood red, white, black and tan since the rest looked like crap to me. So many strange clothes that look like crap when you try to use a customization system that the game swears is great.

Great game, but it left a bitter taste in my mouth as I realised all the issues I had are related to things that should have been done that probably weren't just becaus ehtey can remedy it in a paid DLC.

RPG's are my favorite genre and I enjoyed Fable 2.

Plenty of people didn't like it, probably because they didn't understand the type of RPG the original Fable was because they hadn't played it.

Fable 2 is a very enjoyable game, not worthy of a purchase but still a good game & don't even try to deny that.

I thought the game was great, for several reasons. First, the game looked good, it actually had more colors than brown and muzzle-flash. Next, it had good, funny dialogue. The big thing for me was that it worked everything into a cohesive, charming whole.

For people that complain about combat, I've found that it can be as deep and awesome as you make it. You can make an overpowered will user, or have more fun and split melee and ranged, jump into combat and reap foes.

Out of all the games I have purchased in the last three years Fable 2 is the only one I wanted to play again and again. It might be a little easy but IMO it better than being to hard. I usually give up after about 70 tries, wonder why the game designers don't put in a I give up option for some really hard boss battles. Just to let everyone know I'm not as quick as i use to be, I will be 59 years old this years.